Sunday, September 08, 2019

A respected climate scientist's perspective on alarmist climate scientists

Judith Curry is a leading climate scientist.  Here is an excerpt from her blog concerning climate scientist alarmists.
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JC message to the ‘alarmism enforcers’

Well there’s probably a better chance of President Trump listening to me than there is of the climate scientists who are alarmism enforcers listening to me, but here goes anyways.
  • Your behavior is violating the norms of science, and in my opinion is unethical: 
  • failure to acknowledge uncertainty and low levels of confidence in much of the research surrounding hurricanes and climate change. 
  • cherry picking research that supports your personal narrative of alarm, without acknowledging disagreement among scientists and other research and assessment reports that do not support your narrative of alarm. 
  • misleading the public and policy makers as a result of the above two practices 
  • and last but not least, bullying other respected scientists who have different perspectives on evaluating the evidence.
The above is what happens when scientists become political activists. I hope I am not seeing signs of GFDL’s Tom Knutson becoming the latest bullying victim of these activist scientists.

Scientists are gonna do what scientists are gonna do. Short of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification, it seems no one cares what they do. What astonishes me is that there is no pushback from their universities and professional societies on this unethical behavior. Instead these activists are actually rewarded by the universities and professional societies.

The damage that these activist scientists are doing to climate science and the public debate on climate change is incalculable.

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